Tag: Nicola Benedetti
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Edinburgh International Festival 2024 – a ritual that unites us
The 2024 Edinburgh International Festival, running from August 5 to 25, emphasizes audience engagement and affordability, featuring diverse music, theater, and dance, despite the high costs of local accommodations.
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Benedetti’s call to action
A timely reminder from Nicola Benedetti that we need resources not plans to create spaces that help people prepare themselves for the lives ahead of them.
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Nicola Benedetti premiere James MacMillan’s second violin concerto
James MacMillan’s captivating new violin concerto formed the centerpiece in a spectacular Scottish Chamber Orchestra concert at Usher Hall earlier this week, an event that demonstrated remarkable connection between conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and the SCO Dedicated to Nicola Benedetti and in memory of Penderecki who died in 2021, MacMillan’s one movement violin concerto was a…
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Nicola Benedetti’s ‘Baroque’ tops the classical music charts
Good to see Nicola Benedetti’s ‘Baroque’ album take the top spot of the classical music charts (Official Classical Artist Chart and Specialist Classical Chart) today. The album was released on Friday 16 July. News of Benedetti’s chart success comes at the end of a week in which she performed eight live concerts featuring excerpts from…
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Nicola Benedetti plays Baroque at Battersea Arts Centre
A concert format that works, introduced by a practitioner who knows her game and wants others to love it. CDs in the foyer folks.
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First selection of live events announced for 2021
A selection of (actual) live event announcements scheduled for the next few months.
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Nicola Benedetti, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Sir Simon Rattle speak to DCMS’ Oliver Dowden about the needs of UK orchestras post-lockdown
Sir Simon Rattle to DCMS’ Oliver Dowden: “We are poised and ready for collaboration, to urgently save our industry and its thousands and thousands of jobs.” I read Sir Simon Rattle’s Times interview first thing on Sunday morning in bed as soon as I woke up. Take it from me this is not the best…
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Returning to writing, content fatigue, self-care in isolation, Vaughan Williams and Benedetti’s Elgar
Identifying the recent blocks to writing, the challenges of creating content that will cut through, and managing oneself in isolation.
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Corinthian Chamber Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Nicola Benedetti
A highly responsive orchestra fuelled by adrenaline and enthuasiasm. Bliss.
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Review: Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto in D with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Cristian Măcelaru
A rip-roaring fusion of musical styles documenting the travels of violinist Nicola Benedetti Decca’s new release is a glorious recording of Marsalis’ captivating violin concerto, premiered in 2015, paired with his Fiddle Suite. The Fiddle Suite is good. Intense and intimate, hits the spot. The focus on my attention has, since the first time I…